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How to Optimize Torrent Client for Faster Torrent Download Speeds

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

If you are new to the torrent world then you should first check this post How to download movies, software, tv shows and many more using Torrents and then come continue reading this post.

I going to show a tweak to increase the torrent download speed.
I think most of them have come across some tweaks to make Internet Connection Faster, But they don’t work or has very little difference in speeds.

In my previous post How to download movies, software, tv shows and many more using Torrents, I mentioned to check seeders count and leachers count before you start the download. Even though the torrent have more seeders, the download speed was not crossing 50KBps.
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22.12.2007 How-To, P2P, TipsNTricks 20 Comments

How to open files that have unusual file extensions

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

Imagine you just downloaded a file from the internet or have a file on your PC that has an extension that you have never seen before. Now, you want to know as to which program or application can open this? I had faced this problem a few years back. I downloaded games with some extensions ( .7z and .sif ) that I had never seen before. I wanted to install the game. So, I did R&D by searching in google and found a website http://www.filext.com/

Now, you have got a file with an unknown extension, what will you do?

FILExt - The File Extension Source

Just Go to http://www.filext.com and type the extension and it will search from its database and show the applications that can read your file extension, sometimes you may find more than one application that can open the file with that extension.
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09.12.2007 How-To, TipsNTricks 3 Comments

How to Hide browser at workplace

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Today, i am going to pass on a trick that i am using from a long time, way back from 2003. I use it everyday, umpteen times a day at my workplace.
Maxthon Browser
Most of you those who browse at workplace ( to pass the time ) and don’t want others to look at what you are browsing ( especially your boss )

I am using a browser from 2002 – till date and this browser has an option to hide the browser :)

The feature to hide the browser is called “Boss Key” ( you can guess why the feature is named as this :) ). There is a shortcut to hide and unhide the browser Alt + ~ key combination like a toggle switch. The option can be found in File Menu.

The browser is Maxthon (formerly MyIE2). You can download the browser from here.

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07.12.2007 Browsers, How-To, TipsNTricks 12 Comments

Is Yahoo Chat safe ?

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Want to ask you “Is Yahoo Chat safe ?”. Think….

My answer:
well, it depends…

I came to know from my 10+2 friend Maqsood that one can peep into others yahoo chat messages…

Lets start from the networking perspective. As most of you know, any data in network is passed as a packet. Every packet has a destination IP address, source IP address and the message itself.

In this case yahoo chat messages are also transmitted as packets.

Sniffer can be used to monitor the network traffic or packets flowing in the network.
Yahoo Messenger
On the net you can find yahoo sniffer which sniffs packets to capture yahoo chat packets.

Now the question is… If you have sniffer running on your PC, sniffer can read only those packets that are coming to your system i.e., only your buddy’s messages. then how come you can get your neighbor’s chat messages?
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03.12.2007 Security, TipsNTricks 4 Comments

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